Nigel Slater

Nigel Slater (born April 9, 1958 in Wolverhampton ) is a British journalist, cook and author. He has been writing a monthly cooking column for the Observer for two decades . Previously, he wrote for the English edition of Marie Claire magazine for five years .

Life

Nigel Slater was born on April 9, 1958 in Wolverhampton, a small town in the West Midlands . He was the third and youngest son of the factory owners Tony Slater and Kathleen Slater. His mother died of asthma in 1965. Just nine years later, his father also died, having married his second wife, Dorothy Perrens, three years earlier.

After completing his first education at Woodfield Avenue School in the small town of Penn, Nigel Slater moved to Worcestershire in his teens, where he attended Chantry High School. There he wrote his first essays and was one of two boys to study home economics and cooking.

Publications

In his first cookbook, The Marie Claire Cookbook , Nigel Slater published a selection of his recipes in the UK over 20 years ago. 15 more books followed. To this day, his titles Tender - Gemüse , Tender - Obst , Das Küchentagebuch , Eat , Simply Enjoy and One Year Eating Well have been published by DuMont Buchverlag in Germany . The film Toast (2010), which is about Nigel Slater's biography Halbe Portion , is based on his childhood story between tragedy and enjoyment. The main roles include Helena Bonham Carter and Freddie Highmore (Nigel Slater).

Overview of the German-language cookbooks

• Half portion. How I Learned to Love English Cooking (Toast), 2005, ISBN 978-3-8225-0661-5
• I tender vegetables. From Eggplant to Onion (Tender Volume I), 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9449-9
• Tender I fruit. From apples to grapes (Tender Volume II), 2013, ISBN 978-3-8321-9450-5
• The kitchen diary. With 250 recipes through the year (Kitchen Diaries II), 2014, ISBN 978-3-8321-9477-2
• Simply enjoy. Cooking step by step (appetite), 2015, ISBN 978-3-8321-9496-3
• Eat. The Little Book of Fast Food Kitchen (eat), 2015, ISBN 978-3-8321-9489-5
• For a year, eating well (A Year of Good Eating), 2016, ISBN 978-3-8321-9912-8

Awards and honors

• 1995: Glenfiddich Cookery Writer of the Year Award
• 1995: Glenfiddich Trophy
• 1995: Glenfiddich Award for Best Visual Work for The Observer
• 1996: Media Personality of the Year Award (Good Food Awards)
• 1999: Glenfiddich Award for Best Visual Work for Real Food
• 1999: Best Newspaper Cookery Journalist Award
• 2000: André Simon Award for Cookbook of the Year for Appetite (Simply Enjoy, DuMont)
• 2004: André Simon Award for Toast (Half Portion, Piper)
• 2004: Glenfiddich Food Book of the Year for Toast (Half Portion, Piper)
• 2004: British Biography of the Year Award for Toast (Half Portion, Piper)
• 2004: Observer Food Monthly Book of the Year Award for Toast (Half Portion, Piper)
• 2004: WH Smith People's Choice Award for "Toast"
• 2006: British Book Award for The Kitchen Diaries (Das Küchentagebuch, DuMont)
• 2007: Specialist Writer of the Year, PPA Awards * 2009: Honorary DLitt from the University of Wolverhampton
• 2009: BBC Food Personality of the Year

Web links

• Own web presence
• Literature by and about Nigel Slater in the catalog of the German National Library